Here are just a few of the odd media used in visual art that have been used to some degree of success.
Toast
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Finding images in food is nothing new, due to the tendency of humans to recognize patterns. Artist Maurice Bennett takes this a step further, creating or reproducing several masterpieces from patterns using the contrast of light and dark shades in toast. Like-minded artist Hittomii from Japan has also used toast as a medium, drawing anime images into toast using pigments like cocoa and tea powder.
Glitter
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Usually seen as an accessory, glitter can be used as a painting medium that creates images and patterns when stuck to a canvas appropriately coated with an adhesive at the right places. Speed painter and psychic entertainer Robert Channing has utilized this medium in his speed painting show Imagination Into Art, quickly creating images of popular celebrities and cultural icons in mere minutes.
Microorganisms
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Using living or deceased microorganisms is much older an artform than most people realize. Craftsmen have been meticulously using the silica shells of diatoms to create stained glass-like patterns and images in microscope slides since the 19th Century. Scientists have manipulated bacterial cultures into growing in particular patterns and have developed engineered bacteria to act like camera film.
A renowned psychic entertainer and speed painter, Robert Channing has performed live for corporate, collegiate, and media audiences the world over. Learn more about him and his show Imagination Into Art from this website.
